Download or read book Mystery of Magic Revealed written by Carl E. Zamloch and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mystery in the Magic Shop written by Gertrude Chandler Warner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aldens try to find a missing magician. Henry is learning to perform magic tricks from The Amazing Arthur and is excited to participate in Greenfield Magic Shop's annual magic show. But then The Amazing Arthur goes missing. Is his disappearance part of a new magic trick or a mystery?

Download or read book The Secret History of Magic written by Peter Lamont and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pull back the curtain on the real history of magic – and discover why magic really matters If you read a standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in ancient Egypt, with the resurrection of a goose in front of the Pharaoh. You discover how magicians were tortured and killed during the age of witchcraft. You are told how conjuring tricks were used to quell rebellious colonial natives. The history of magic is full of such stories, which turn out not to be true. Behind the smoke and mirrors, however, lies the real story of magic. It is a history of people from humble roots, who made and lost fortunes, and who deceived kings and queens. In order to survive, they concealed many secrets, yet they revealed some and they stole others. They engaged in deception, exposure, and betrayal, in a quest to make the impossible happen. They managed to survive in a world in which a series of technological wonders appeared, which previous generations would have considered magical. Even today, when we now take the most sophisticated technology for granted, we can still be astonished by tricks that were performed hundreds of years ago. The Secret History of Magic reveals how this was done. It is about why magic matters in a world that no longer seems to have a place for it, but which desperately needs a sense of wonder.

Download or read book Mathematics Magic and Mystery written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed puzzle expert explains math behind a multitude of mystifying tricks: card tricks, stage "mind reading," coin and match tricks, counting out games, geometric dissections, etc. More than 400 tricks. 135 illustrations.

Download or read book Tricks with Your Head written by Mac King and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mac King is a god.” —Penn and Teller Tricks with Your Head is the world’s greatest (and only) collection of hilarious, mystifying, and sometimes repulsive magic tricks that you can perform with your very own head. If you’ve only thought of your head as a receptacle for so-called higher learning, or as a structure for keeping your haircut from falling into your body cavity, rejoice! Now you can use that ten-pound meatball between your shoulders as a source of ribald entertainment. Best of all, when you learn to perform a head trick, you can never be caught without your prop. Mac King and Mark Levy have perfected the ultimate mix of head games (literally) in this clever illustrated volume that teaches you how to: * Make your head disappear * Penetrate your skull with a drinking straw * Make a french fry vanish up your nose * Read someone’s mind * Jab a fork in your eye

Download or read book Mark Wilson s Complete Course in Magic written by Mark Anthony Wilson and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2003-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate book of magic for kids from a world-famous magician, complete with photographs for easy to follow instructions. From one of the world's premier practitioners of classic magic, with years of experience instructing younger readers in the magical arts, comes this new revision of his complete guide to learning and performing fantastic feats of prestidigitation. Acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as "the text that young magicians swear by," it's full of step-by-step instructions. More than 2,000 illustrations provide the know-how behind 300 techniques, from basic card tricks to advanced levitation, along with advice on planning and staging a professional-quality magic show.

Download or read book The Magic Show Mystery written by Gertrude Chandler Warner and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benny and Watch learn magic tricks and get ready to do a magic show--until Watch disappears! Full color.

Download or read book The Magician s Secret written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major magic trick leads to missing murder evidence in this eighth book of the Nancy Drew Diaries, a fresh approach to a classic series. When she attends a performance by master illusionist Drake Lonestar, Nancy is skeptical. Lonestar is known for his razzle-dazzle wizardry, but can the magician really make the River Heights library disappear? As it turns out, he can—but that’s not the only thing that goes missing. Key evidence to an upcoming murder trial disappears in the midst of the trick. And one of the trial attorneys just happens to be Nancy’s father, Carson Drew, assisted by her boyfriend, Ned Nickerson. Nancy, Bess, and George are quick to jump on the case, but not quite quick enough: Lonestar has vanished, too, and not even his closest friends know his whereabouts. Magic is its own kind of mystery—but is this one Nancy can handle?

Download or read book The Illustrated Book of Magic Tricks written by Will Dexter and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Magic Book written by Lydia Darbyshire and published by Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the ideal introduction to the fascinating world of illusion. Learn classic card tricks, escapology, even how to pull a rabbit out of a hat, through detailed descriptions and illustrations.

Download or read book Magic and Illusions written by Tim Cooke and published by Mystery Files. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From card tricks to reading minds, the art of magic lies in the magician's or illusionist's ability to deceive the audience. Read about the mysteries that lie behind such spectacular magic tricks and illusions as slight of hand, escapology, levitation, sword swallowing, and more!"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking written by Matthew Hutson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do rational people buy notions that seem utterly incredulous? (And that includes you.) Everyone – even the most jaded and sceptical – believes in ‘magic’, in the form of luck, mind over matter, the power of similarities, jinxes, and destiny. In this wonderful exploration of psychology, Matthew Hutson takes us on a fascinating tour of magical thinking in everyday life, revealing the healing power of John Lennon’s piano; the reason gamblers kiss their tickets; and why admitting you have no free will staves off addiction.

Download or read book The Secret of Real Magic written by Brenda Corbett and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-11-25 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book is the power of real magic! No joke, no tricks. It's a game you can never lose if you learn the secret. Join me, Prometheus, as I take you on my lifelong journey in the search for real magic. I found it! It is called Emperor's Chess. My novel is science fiction, and within, I bring to reality a historic game with the greatest mystery. After reading this book, your life will change. After trying this ancient game, you will sit back in shock because what I'm saying is true. I am ex-Air Force and prefer my name, for behind this, I can reveal to you much more than I could in real life. This game is just the tip of the iceberg of what I know and is my gift to you as well as my hallmark of real honesty as I open your eyes to many things going on that you have yet to realize. I type to stay off the net for big brother is watching in many ways. I hope this book will open your eyes and fill your pockets as it has mine. I have for the first time felt true freedom in writing this book. I am patriot and a federalist and always for the people. I hope that everyone who reads this becomes a millionaire from it - my gift to you! ENJOY! In his search through his late father's journal, Hephaestus discovers an ancient Chinese script that contains the secret of real magic: the game you can never lose, the game of the gods, encrypted by the off-worlders the hidden knowledge of immortals - emperor's chess. It is a real game, and once you read this, your life will change forever! Learning this, you will always make money and can never be poor. The secret of real magic is emperor's chess. When you can win against thirty opponents at once, you will see the true power of the ancients. Read the book and try it. This is very real, and it will blow your mind. I am Prometheus, and I want you to better your life. It is my greatest gift I can give you. May it bring you great fun, great profits, and great joy.

Download or read book Penn Teller s how to Play in Traffic written by Penn Jillette and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical jokes, miracles, and anecdotes that make travel so much fun, who cares if you're never invited back!

Download or read book Experiencing the Impossible written by Gustav Kuhn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking tour through the science of magic will make you question what you know about your brain and your reality. A psychologist and magician shows how the scientific study of magic reveals intriguing—and often unsettling—insights into the mysteries of the human mind. What do we see when we watch a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat or read a person’s mind? We are captivated by an illusion; we applaud the fact that we have been fooled. Why do we enjoy experiencing what seems clearly impossible, or at least beyond our powers of explanation? In Experiencing the Impossible, Gustav Kuhn examines the psychological processes that underpin our experience of magic. Kuhn, a psychologist and a magician, reveals the intriguing—and often unsettling—insights into the human mind that the scientific study of magic provides. Magic, Kuhn explains, creates a cognitive conflict between what we believe to be true (for example, a rabbit could not be in that hat) and what we experience (a rabbit has just come out of that hat!). Drawing on the latest psychological, neurological, and philosophical research, he suggests that misdirection is at the heart of all magic tricks, and he offers a scientific theory of misdirection. He explores, among other topics, our propensity for magical thinking, the malleability of our perceptual experiences, forgetting and misremembering, free will and mind control, and how magic is applied outside entertainment—the use of illusion in human-computer interaction, politics, warfare, and elsewhere. We may be surprised to learn how little of the world we actually perceive, how little we can trust what we see and remember, and how little we are in charge of our thoughts and actions. Exploring magic, Kuhn illuminates the complex—and almost magical—mechanisms underlying our daily activities.

Download or read book John Dee s Five Books of Mystery written by John Dee and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovered in a hidden compartment of an old chest long after his death, the secret writings of John Dee, one of the leading scientists and occultists of Elizabethan England, record in minute detail his research into the occult. Dee concealed his treatises on the nature of humankind's contact with angelic realms and languages throughout his life, and they were nearly lost forever. In his brief biography of John Dee, Joseph Peterson calls him a "true Renaissance man"? detailing his work in astronomy, mathematics, navigation, the arts, astrology, and the occult sciences. He was even thought to be the model for Shakespeare's Prospero. All this was preparation for Dee's main achievement: five books, revealed and transcribed between March 1582 and May 1583, bringing to light mysteries and truths that scholars and adepts have been struggling to understand and use ever since. These books detail his system for communicating with the angels, and reveal that the angels were interested in and involved with the exploration and colonization of the New World, and in heralding in a new age or new world order. While Dee's influence was certainly felt in his lifetime, his popularity has grown tremendously since. His system was used and adapted by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and subsequently by Aleister Crowley. This new edition of John Dee's Five Books of Mystery is by far the most accessible and complete published to date. Peterson has translated Latin terms and added copious footnotes, putting the instructions and references into context for the modern reader.

Download or read book Blackstone s Secrets of Magic written by Harry Blackstone and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: